Forum: Portal/CMS Applications

Just wondering how hard it is to get some kind of open source CMS up and running on RFH. I'm maintaining a club site for someone and the constant updates are getting a bit laborious Thanks for any tips:)

Hi I just thought I would share my experiences. First off im a total n00b at installing Drupal, so it took me a few hours of reading to learn what I was doing wrong - hopefully this post will save someone in a similar position some significant time. 1. Assuming you have setup helm with...

Folks First off I'm not a developer, but can generally pick things up with a bit of guidance. I'm trying to install Drupal and have hit the 'register_globals' issue. I've found an entry from another thread (pasted below), but cannot fathom out where the code given should be placed. So, if...

Hi All I am trying to install DotnetNuke 4.7, but I don't have read write permissions. Can I set it myself in Helm?, or do I need to open a support ticket and ask Warren to vary the permissions temporally? whilst I do the install. Thanks

Hello all I'm considering converting my Doctor Who site to PHP CMS based. Trouble is 1000 pages to do :( . I would like to be able to update online via other machines as i'm planning on going to LA reguarly Any that support hotspots etc would be great I currently use Dreamweaver which...

Hi, Our community website www.chestermc.org has been hacked, there is a load of rubbish text on the top of the index page, anyone know how I can disable it? Were running on postnuke 1.0.1, I have search the whole backend DB for the text, nothing, so its not SQL Inject, cant see it in any of...

Hi Okay so I have Dnn working fine on http://www.domainA.co.uk I have created a second portal in the Dnn and called it http://www.domainB.co.uk So my question is, what do I need to do to get http://www.domainB.co.uk to use the newly created Portal. Do I need to copy all of the Dnn...

Hi All Well altho I have been tinkering with DNN for a few years I never got my head round it, well now I have those years of coding experience under my belt I decided to have another play. So anyway I have managed to follow a tutorial and build a simple module using the Dnn stater kit in...

One of my DNN 4.x sites gives the following error when I click on one of the menu-items in the 'Admin' in 'Host' menu (i.e. Site Settings, File Manager, ...): Error: File Manager is currently unavailable. DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException:...

I've got a customer who wants a fairly simple site that they can update themselves. Which open source CMS do people recommmend? It needs to be fully skinnable, but once setup it should be simple for the customer to change. I appreciate any advice you have.

Hi, I'm trying to install Umbraco on the server running under ASP .Net 2.0 Umbraco needs to run with Full Trust permissions. This link on the Umbraco forum describes the problem: http://forum.umbraco.org/4521 Would it be possible to run my site on Full trust ? thanks, Seb

I've installed DNN 3.3.5 on a RFH account and it works, except for one thing. If I visit the portal for the first time and it starts up (after not being visited for a while), an authentication pop-up appears. When I press Cancel, DNN returns an error. After this, the site can be visited without...

I'd like to create a Portal for a client which does the following things: Allows the clients staff to share custom contact details Allows the clients customers to access a file sharing areaIdeally running from an MSSQL Database hosted on a RedFox account. I intend to code this myself but...

Does anyone know of an easy way of upgrading from DNN 3.1.x to DNN v4.x? Apart from the .NET version issues, what about the DB? Web config, added modules? My current installation has suddenly decided to 'stop working' for some reason unknown to me or Warren so am now looking at doing the upgrade....

Hey guys Does anyone know anything about PHP fusion, i've got the guestbook added on my http://www.trekdimension.com site though seem to get lot of spam :( I was just wondering if there was a way to admin the guestbook to approve entries before use - I've contacted the guys who built it...

Hello I was just wondering, has anyone used PHP Nuke. I'm considering giving my Doctor Who site an overhaul, just wondered what you all think. I've tried to install PHP Nuke, though i get these errors. Warning: main(mainfile.php) function.main.php]: failed to open stream: No such...

I'm searching for an existing CMS/portal solution (open source or commercial) to build an online "yellow pages"-like portal. I want visitors to be able to search through a database of companies by category or free text. The search should result in a list view containing the results. Every entry in...

As some of you may have gathered, I have got quite a bit of experience with various CMS / Portal applications. However, I still want to get some input / feedback from some of the people here on a few things. I'm currently getting back to an application I started sometime ago which is basically...

Hey All, I've just launched an Article Directory and I thought I'd post to let you know about the "Free Site Content Feed" we have. It's basically a script that lets registered members of the site choose a custom selection of article categories from the site and automatically pull articles...

Hello I was just wondering what the advantages of CMS vs Wiki were I'm considering revamping one of my websites though the website is for 60-80 year olds as it's for a local music club, though I was going to allow the chairman to post reviews of the concerts - just wondered which would be...